Andrea Gail History

Febuary 7th 2009

drove from Portland to Gloucester tonight, every Febuary for 18 years since 1991,   1984 was around my first time taking out fish at STAR fisheries ,GUS

OFTEN I COME TO THE OLDEST SEA PORT IN NORTH AMERICA.

WENT TO THE CROW’S NEST , get the usual    two  hats   two beers  . one for each

person that might accompany me ,in our travels,

looked at the wall from my usual corner perch at the bar ,close to the door.

she noticed they changed the front  windows. i knew ,she hadn’t been there in years.

the old key board for the rooms upstairs hasn’t changed since the crew of the Andrea

Gail left in September 1991 ,

the  old   key board   . guess you  would  have to see it , to know what i’m talking about

she  does paranormal.  sitting at the bar , said she was getting  feelings  ,

what she  does, going to have to talk to her again.  IT HAS HISTORY surely

Crow’s nest   restless spirits ?

who ever took the picture off the wall ??  crew memorial at the crow’s nest???

you should return it back with the rest of the Andrea Gail crew photos

made another trip to Gloucester   went to cape pond ice   talked with Scott

the  Andrea Gail   stop at the Crows nest  gave Greg a card Andrea Gail history . com   looked for Moses , missed him all over  Gloucester,

had fish and chips at the pilot house , saw a few faces from Portland .

shot over 400 images   GOING TO HAVE TO BUILD A NEW  ANDREA GAIL

WEB SIGHT    some improvement in the CHAOS.

had one good taxi  comment     thank you for the  COMMENTS ,

had to deny or hold back a couple comments for personal reasons.

try to respect the family’s of the crew, the truth is hard some times.

personally it has been very difficult at times  remembering my brothers

thank you again

made  a trip to Gloucester again  Saturday march 7th 2009

Maine  boats from Portland are all fishing out of Gloucester

got to the crows nest early  Greg was reading the paper bar was empty

got another Crows Nest Cap  hat. took about 300 images with the new canon camera DIGITAL

lunch at the Pilot House , one of the Pratty girls works at the Pilot house. GLOUCESTER IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE  ,WATER WAS SO CLEAR Clean 2009

Paul left portland to go fishing on the Theresa Marie 4. january 22nd  2009 PAUL BROUGHT A SUITCASE ON BOARD with his belongings. they say never bring a coffin on the boat.

he died on the boat about the fourth day fishing jan 26th 2009  78 miles off shore.
talked to one crewman in the taxi on commercial street .that was on the  boat
he told me this quote I never lost a man on the boat before.

tried to revive him for a long time.

paul could not breathe and collapsed.

he died at sea ,. he has a large family from maine,

paul worked on the waterfront most of his younger days.

he has many friends from portland, our prayers to the family

january 2009